#23 The MASSIVE EXPLOSION at the Mother Lode Mine
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ค. 2024
- The Mother Lode was a large mine that supplied ore for the Greenwood smelter. Hear the story of the massive explosion that ruined the mine!
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Franks chuckle when the blasting cap went off, you can tell how much he loves this stuff. Lol
Blasting is truly a BLAST 💥! I did a bit of hard rocking in my younger days. I gotta say, getting old sucks! Nobody told me that it hurts…
Picks up detonation cap with lighter in hand and just lights the fucker, gotta love Frank, absolute mad man!
Just a time fuse. There were no blasting caps in this video. Perfectly safe just a glorified sparkler really.
Neat to watch the old videos and Max to!
Frank never ceases to amaze us 😊
Wow, an excellent video. Always wondered about the "Mother Load" mine feeding the Greenwood Smelter in the Boundary country. I have stood by the Greenwood stack but didn't realize how extensive that slag pile was until seeing your drone video!
I am sharing with you a general conclusion I have made from my research when comparing the Boundary country and Rossland, in the years before and during World War One. Namely, the Boundary ores were cheaper to mine and smelt.
Boundary mines were relatively shallow and inexpensive to mine while Rossland with its greater depths was more expensive to mine. The Boundary ores were cheaper to smelt as the sulphur content was relatively low. The Trail smelter had roasting furnaces to reduce the sulphur before the Rossland ores went into the blast furnaces. At the Boundary smelters: Grand Forks, Greenwood & Boundary Falls; the ores went straight into the blast furnaces.
The way Rossland/Trail were able to compete was the much higher gold content of the Rossland ores.
Let me know if you concur, disagree or never considered such a comparison.
Keep up the good work! Though not a mine, have you considered doing a video on the Boundary Falls smelter. Just north of Midway. Find the ruins, fly a drone about to spot the slag pile.
Regards Glenn.
The mines at Phoenix where most of the ore cames from to feed the Grand Forks smelter were copper mines. The mines in Rossland were gold mines. When they closed the Rossland mines in 1941 the Trail smelter swiched from gold production to Lead/Zinc ores which they still do today.
Hi Frank and Sharon!
I had a blast
Great intro tunes
Nice demonstration of a blasting cap, best letting explode away from you. I was lost down there, glad you know where you're going.
Thanks 👍
LOL! BIG FIRECRACKER! LMAZZOFF!
Thanks, Frank, geology questions? Always remember to, Ask Jeff Williams! LOL
Frank, besides playing with explosives😎😎...your invitations to enter a mine is 1) screened or 2) keep out 🤣🤣👍👍 Rock On!
Those are not explosives. They are time fuses. Glorified sparklers really.
Good evening from Southeast South Dakota
24:55. This one worked out OK but, for future reference, Aluminum does corrode, along with all kinds of stress cracking.
You just can't see it as easily as rust on steel. Huge problem on airplanes and helicopters.
I don’t think I could resist hauling some samples of different geology that I have noticed. Probably more than would be smart to carry… some interesting stuff!
Thanks to Frank, I took my wife on a side adventure to an abandoned mine on our honeymoon in BC :) . It was just Phoenix, but it was super cool nonetheless.
That is awesome!
You got some more vets up there loading them Holes don't you hahaha
2:44 back when the old style was, the blasters who knew how to time these the best were worth their weight in gold. I heard stories (here in Europe) that towards the end, some of the old guys would make super elaborate "trees" to time the blasts as best they could. Pretty accurately too... but of course, super cost inefficient and thus they lost in favor of electricity.
Hit the like button!
I don't know why I think moldy old boards down in a hole full of rocks is interesting, but I Do!
Have no fear frank always has it handled.......4 shure
Great explore Frank! Just wondering…I seem to recall 🤔 that you referred to “us” and “we” during your dialogue - does that mean that you DID have an exploring colleague with you? I hope so because it would have surely been massively risky otherwise - which would have worried Sharon - if she knew that is! Also what were all the clanking noises we could hear - was that your rope climbing paraphernalia? Greetings from 🇬🇧⛏🧨
No I was by my self. Us and we and the viewers!
And they'll make you use those if you're near an airport now too 😜
For an Idea could you get access and tour the mine you flew over!! Celebrity that you arrr. Special episode so to speak... multi epiaode desperced to us over time.??!!!
Karen says hi
What the heck were they thinking would happen tho? :))
That rat was probably born down there, and didn't know what light was until you showed up.
I see there’s the twin peaks in the background 7:47
A couple of hills behind Greenwood.
I have found another channel by this same name with a different picture. Is it legit?
nope!
Understand this…throughout history adventurers and explorers have taken dogs with them…and for many & varied reasons. Most dogs love exploring with their masters. Life, even for a dog, isn’t worth living if confined without freedom to be a dog-friend. The same could happen to humans as well. It’s called “life”. Just saying!
Im gonna be that guy FIRST 😂
CONGRATULATIONS!
Sorry for the dog comment I apologize if what i said went down wrong . I remember Max is why I stupidly said something.
I removed the comment .